postglossator
postglossator noun: a legal scholar of the late Middle Ages, in the period after the glossators; a commentator.
Noun
postglossator (plural postglossators)
- A legal scholar of the late Middle Ages, in the period after the glossators; a commentator.
- It would seem uncontroversial in an age of humanist philology to claim that the Corpus Juris Civilis in its pristine form and with its historical sense restored to it would be more authoritative than first the gloss, second the postglossators’ additions to the gloss, and finally the elucubrations...1992, Ian Maclean, Interpretation and Meaning in the Renaissance: The Case of Law, →ISBN, page 94
Forms of postglossator
| plural | postglossators |
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Origin of postglossator
From post- + glossator.
Questions about postglossator
- What does postglossator mean?
- Postglossator means a legal scholar of the late Middle Ages, in the period after the glossators; a commentator.
- What part of speech is postglossator?
- Postglossator is a noun.
- What is the plural of postglossator?
- The plural of postglossator is postglossators.
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